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Agency Finds Itself Awash in “Wet Year” Water

Emerging from a wet winter, state water officials were able to set aside 50,000 acre-feet of water for the Santa Clarita Valley’s water wholesaler, the Castaic Lake Water Agency. How much water is that?  It’s about 50,000 football fields each under one foot of water. This water earmarked for CLWA use is called “carryover” water. Unlike managing water in a drought year, when every drop of water is used, the agency couldn’t use its 50,000 acre-feet of “carryover” water in this current wet year. Consequently, about 35,000 acre-feet of water earmarked for the CLWA went unused.